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Same Old Sevco Always Moaning

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Today, Sevco are dominating the headlines, hogging them like a fat kid at a party with his arms wrapped around the cake. Why?

To moan. To bitch. To complain.

Last night, I posted on the gleeful media interview the Alloa chairman did with STV on their decision to change the dimensions of their pitch, something that had the Sevco manager Mark Warburton crying his eyes out at the club’s press conference.

I thought his “bafflement” was hilarious, especially in light of the way Mike Mulraney at Alloa handled things, simply brushing aside his complaints as if they were the ramblings of a drunk guy in the boozer. It made Warburton seem petty and small minded.

Well imagine my surprise this morning to find out that he did more moaning yesterday than that, and that in amongst his spewing about the pitch size he was also complaining about artificial surfaces too, and now apparently supports getting rid of them.

This guy … honestly.

Doesn’t he know that clubs choose to use artificial surfaces because otherwise the financial costs would be too great?

I think he probably does.

He simply doesn’t give a monkeys.

Last month, the Sevco managing director, Stewart Robertson, was in all the papers after attending a meeting at Hampden where he got a chance to cast some votes on behalf of the club. He was talking, then, about how good it was to be able to “re-engage” with Scottish football, and wanted his club to “play a role” in determining its future.

This morning we know what that role would look like.

It would consist of them turning up at meetings with a bloody shopping list of stuff to change.

“These are the things we don’t like. Please get rid of them for us.”

In the last fortnight they’ve demanded a meeting with the head of referees to “clarify” some of the rules, because they’re unhappy with how they work. Yesterday they were bitching about the regulation which allows clubs to change their pitch size. Now, they want plastic pitches outlawed. What tomorrow? Forbidding the use of tactical substitutions? Playing, as Mulraney joked yesterday, in five-a-side goals instead?

What a damned cheek this club has; they are the biggest rule breakers in the history of the game here in Scotland and that’s not enough for them. Having run roughshod over the rulebook, and been allowed to by the SFA, now they want to go through the rulebook itself, one bit at a time, changing anything that isn’t to their liking.

This is the Sevco sense of entitlement at its very finest.

Watching Warburton yesterday, you’d think he’d been told the SFA had decided to award Alloa two goals of a start, and the more I hear him these days the more I hear the whiny, petulant, spiteful voice of Ally McCoist at his running worst.

It hasn’t taken the Englishman long to grow into his role, has it?

Same old Sevco, always moaning.

Same old Sevco, forever playing the Victim card.

Do you feel as sorry for them as I do?

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